The Celebreality Interview - Brandi C.

“It looks like I’m mentally disabled!” Brandi C., yelled at us, taking us to task for posting less-than-flattering shots of her on this site. Whatever, Brandi C., you get what you give and sometimes the result is complete mentally disabled brilliance. After the jump, Bret Michaels’ favorite titmouse talks about being double-crossed by Toasteee and Pumkin, their resulting food fight, Real’s proposal to Hoopz and the nature of her relationship with Megan, who was right beside her as she answered our questions…in bed!

Why were you so upset as your final episode went on? Were you just wasted or what?

No! I don’t think you guys can see how crazy it was that day. Even the food fight doesn’t look as intense as it was being in it. After I realized Hoopz was Paymaster, I had a feeling I’d be targeted just because I would be the easiest person to get rid of without pissing anyone else off. But Pumkin and Toasteee turned on Megan and me that day. We were doomed. After being their for a month and fight for a month to stay, all this s*** went to hell in 30 seconds. It was so intense and shocking.

Wasn’t it going to get to the point where you and Megan had to turn on Pumkin and Toasteee anyway?

We weren’t going to turn on them. It was our secret alliance! We thought we could be the four people at the end. We never had it in our heads to turn on Toasteee and Pumkin. If anything, that morning our mindset was, “We need to talk to Toasteee and Pumkin to see what we can all do.”

You offered yourself up to save Megan, but were you aware that there would be another elimination following your forfeit?

Once I figured that I was just kind of screwed, I told the producers I wanted to quit. “I can’t do this anymore. My mental capacity can’t take anymore. It’s just too hard.” They told me that if I did quit, they’d have to put a third person in the box. Since I trusted Hoopz’s word, it was my only chance to screw over the girls that screwed us over. But coming to the end of that competition, I knew I wasn’t going to be able to beat Hoopz or Whiteboy. It’s not that I wasn’t a threat. I guess I am weaker than Hoopz or Whiteboy or Real, but at the same time, I was a threat to those who went before me.

You sold yourself as a non-threat as a matter of strategy, right?

Of course. It was like, bye bye, 12 Pack. Bye bye, Heather. I’m so much of a non-threat that you guys just went home. I just laid low. People really didn’t realize that we had an alliance going on.

You mentioned that the food fight was more intense than we saw. How?

Megan and I were by the pool and Toasteee and Pumkin came out and splashed water on us. You can see it in the extras. They were just being bitches and being crazy and screaming at us. Later, when I went in and said, “Oh, you guys are still eating?” it was because of Pumkin’s eating disorder. And she’s a f***ing fat cow anyway, so I was just kind of making fun of them because they suck. And then it just turned into a food fight. I thought my milk pouring was pretty spectacular. You didn’t see enough of that on TV. And she was pouring cranberry juice on us and it was destroying our beautiful blonde hair.

What about Real? His vote was the deciding factor in your entry into the box last episode.

Yeah, because he thought we were “coming after” him. The only thing that was ever said about him happened when Megan and Hoopz were still on the pole. I was standing near Pumkin and Toasteee and they were freaking out. They asked me who Megan might send home if she turned out to be Paymaster, but I was trying to focus so I was like, “Shut up, I don’t know! I don’t f***ing know, maybe one of the stronger players. I don’t know.”

What did you think of Real’s proposal?

The proposal was ridiculous. At that point, Megan and I had given up and we were drinking a lot of wine. That’s why we were screaming at them. I mean, come on. You’ve been there a month. This girl doesn’t even like you. I think Real’s a little delusional and once he lost his brother, he didn’t know what to do so he latched onto Hoopz.

You and Megan grew extraordinarily close on the show, wouldn’t you say?

Yeah. And what I said at the end was real. $250,000 is a lot of money, but it’s not the most important thing in the world to me. I actually value friendship and people a lot more than money.

It’s very ironic that you were on a reality show to make friends.

No! I hate everybody else. It’s very hard for me to like people. When I find someone that I make best friends with, it’s gold to me.

You’re super affectionate. There are times in this week’s episode that I had to ask, “Are they lovers?”

We were watching it gasping. Like, really? It’s not like we’re in love at all. We’re just really good friends and we look out for each other. If one’s sad, the other one tries to make her happy. And by the end of that month of filming, we were holding on by a thread to keep our sanity.

Do you really hate everyone else on the show? Someone like Heather seems to divide her relationships into on-screen and off-screen emotions. Do you actually resent people?

I don’t hold things against anyone. It’s just that I didn’t spend time with anybody else. I guess I’m just indifferent to them. I knew Heather from Rock of Love, but I feel like she’s changed a lot since then. It’s not like I hate everybody. I still don’t like Pumkin. I kinda forgive Toasteee because she just went along with whatever Pumkin was doing. Toasteee’s a sweet girl. But it’s not a hate-resentment thing. It’s just an I-don’t-really-care thing.

You and Heather were tight on Rock of Love. What happened?

On Rock of Love, she was more of a party, just-want-to-have-fun type of person. I think because she got her heart broken, she’s more guarded now. So because of that, she didn’t like Megan and she was kinda giving me crap for hanging out with Megan. I didn’t see her much, really.

You told the Entertainer that she’d done everyone wrong and that everyone hated her. Was that true?

It was funny because with each elimination, it was like someone would start to become a target of the house, and not for any good reason. They’d just rise to the surface. Because Heather had lost her alliance, she was rising to the top as a safe decision of someone who could be eliminated without pissing too many other people off.

Are you still tight with Kristia?

No, not at all. That girl is not nice. Basically, she came to live with me and then couldn’t pay rent because she didn’t have a job. When she owed me so much money and I asked her if she was ever going to get a job, she just left one day while I was shopping. I don’t hold a grudge, you do what you gotta do. I just don’t want to be her friend anymore because that’s kinda mean.

You should have taken her on Judge Judy. Is it hard to watch yourself be so upset on TV?

I kind of started getting teary watching myself be so sad. I think I was sad that there was no hope for Megan and I. But no, by now it’s not really hard because I’ve seen so much of myself crying or acting silly or being retarded.

Keep up with Brandi C., via her FamousVH1Friends.com profile and her MySpace.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 at 3:38 pm